in my case, checking whether the select control is disabled once (when the rating is instantiated) is sufficient, as I do not disable my select client side. But do you think it would be difficult to add a method that disables the rating? That way we could
support those guys that could disable selects via script.

here is how it looks like now when the third option is selected (note how the previous two options appear selected as well): .And here is how I would like it to look (note how
the previous two options do not appear selected): .
Furthermore when we hover one value I would like only that value to be highlighted, not the previous ones. This is how it look like now when we hover the fourth value: and this
is how I would prefer to look like when hovering the same value: